My name is Andy Silver, and I work as a performance coach using hypnosis and NLP, NLP stands for
Neuro-Linguistic Programing. And I've been coaching clients using hypnosis and NLP, for
20 years. My website is ResolutionExperts, (with an S) .com. In this segment becoming
a hypnotherapist I discuss some of the credentialing agencies, which will train people to become
hypnotherapist, some of the benefits of taking those trainings, what certification includes,
and how to start a practice. One of the first things that beginning hypnotherapists need
to do is, to figure out which training program to align themselves with, and there are several
criteria upon which you can make your decision. Some of the large organizations, if you're
not a therapy, or psychologist, or a psychiatrist, that you could join would be the National
Guild of Hynotherapist, The American Board of Hypnotherapist, you can Google and find
several others. And if you are a practicing clinician, you might consider joining the
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. The purpose of becoming affiliated with an organization
after you complete their training, is that they will offer you a continuing education
credits, they will offer you supervision. They have an interest in you becoming successful,
because they want to build their organization, and you'll be able to associate with other
certified clinicians or hypnotherapist in your community. You'll learn about pricing,
you'll learn about marketing, all these are very important. And you'll eventually be able
to identify the niche that you want to fill in your community, where your background enables
you to work with a certain group of people that where maybe you already have name recognition,
and identify their needs and then offer them hypnosis to meet those needs. So the marketing
pieces goes hand and hand in a sense with to identifying and selecting a certain training
organization. A training is one thing, but certification goes way beyond training. Training
might be 40 or 80 hours. Certification gives you a lot more. And when you are certified
you will most likely be able to purchase liability insurance, which is always a good idea. One
of the things you'll learn in a lot of the trainings is, for instance which kind of clients
are really not appropriate to have for hypnosis. Perhaps one thing you'll learn is, if a client
is dealing with substance abuse, that they really need to be in a 12 step program to
have a greater likely-hood of success once you offer a hypnosis to treat their substance
addiction. One of the things that good training will show you is how to tailor your communication,
so that a client who is primarily auditory, you will not present visual information to
them because they cannot see it. An auditory person is much more able to resonate with
what sounds right to them, and that way they will have a very successful experience in
hypnosis. One of the most important things as a hypnotherapist that you need to learn
is about ethical standards. Every profession has ethical standards, and they are far more
complicated to talk about in a video, but very important because your reputation depends
on everybody knowing that as a practicing hypnotherapist that you follow certain standards,
and that ethical procedures are very much the norm for your practice.